Who in the hell was a part of this?

[homedawg]

I found 2.3+ million more people not part of that record!
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More than one in 100 adults in the United States is in jail or prison


an all-time high that is costing state governments nearly $50 billion a year and the federal government $5 billion more.

With more than 2.3 million people behind bars, the United States leads the world in both the number and percentage of residents it incarcerates, leaving far-more-populous China a distant second, according to a study by the nonpartisan Pew Center on the States.

The growth in prison population is largely because of tougher state and federal sentencing imposed since the mid-1980s. Minorities have been particularly affected: One in nine black men ages 20 to 34 is behind bars. For black women ages 35 to 39, the figure is one in 100, compared with one in 355 for white women in the same age group.

[homedawg]

World Birth/Death Rates (2008 est.)1

Birth Rate:........................... Death Rate:
20 births/1,000 population 8 deaths/1,000 population
128.9 million births per year 53.4 million people die each year
353,015 births per day 146,357 people die each day
14,709 births each hour 6098 people die each hour
245 births each minute 102 people die each minute
4 births each second of every day almost 2 people die each second

[homedawg]

I wish I had solid stats on abortions...see if those increased as well. Or was there a decrease, thus causing the additional births.

Number of Abortions Performed in the United States

1973 744,600
1974 898,600
1975 1,034,200
1976 1,179,300
1977 1,316,700
1978 1,409,600
1979 1,497,700
1980 1,553,900
1981 1,577,300
1982 1,573,900
1983 1,575,000
1984 1,577,200
1985 1,588,600
1986 1,574,000
1987 1,559,100
1988 1,590,800
1989 1,566,900
1990 1,608,600
1991 1,556,500
1992 1,528,900
1993 1,500,000
1994 1,431,000
1995 1,363,690
1996 1,365,730
1997 1,365,730
1998 1,365,730
1999 1,365,730
2000 1,312,990
2001 1,303,000
2002 1,293,000
2003 1,293,000
2004 1,293,000

[V3r1f13d]

I wish I had solid stats on abortions...see if those increased as well. Or was there a decrease, thus causing the additional births.

[dananderson32]

Those figures are staggering, HomeDawg. I've got a 4 year old, 2 year old and 9 month old....its hectic now, but I don't even want to think about what the hell is going to happen when they are all in college at the same time. From the time they can understand it, I'm going to have to tell them that they better work hard enough to earn scholarships or grants, otherwise.....well, I don't know what otherwise is.

While many may not agree with me on this...my feeling is that as a parent, I have to teach my children how important grades are....I don't want to put undue stress on them...but, even though my wife and I make decent money, there is no way we will be able to afford paying for all of them to go through college. My parents helped some...but I also graduated college and law school with a pretty hefty amount of debt. I want to be able to help them...but if they think we are going to pay for them to party in college while they attend 6 or 7 years of undergraduate schooling, they've got another thing coming. Helping is one thing....but they're going to have to learn that they are also going to be responsible.

My parenting woes have only just begun...but I wouldn't change it for anything when those three little angels look me in the eye.

i agree with what i bolded but i think also that once you instill how important they are that it comes down to your son or daughter and how much they want the good grades for those scholarships etc.....also i applied to all out of state schools except one school in-state a state university, when your children are done with high school id seriously look into an in-state university that's a state school, i didn't want to go to the school i go to now but to not to have 1 dollar of undergrad debt when i graduate next spring is something im grateful for everyday for going to school where i do, i pay in the single digits in thousands a year for undergrad and its crazy some kids pay 30k a year for undergrad

[Nigel Tufnel]

Those figures are staggering, HomeDawg. I've got a 4 year old, 2 year old and 9 month old....its hectic now, but I don't even want to think about what the hell is going to happen when they are all in college at the same time. From the time they can understand it, I'm going to have to tell them that they better work hard enough to earn scholarships or grants, otherwise.....well, I don't know what otherwise is.

While many may not agree with me on this...my feeling is that as a parent, I have to teach my children how important grades are....I don't want to put undue stress on them...but, even though my wife and I make decent money, there is no way we will be able to afford paying for all of them to go through college. My parents helped some...but I also graduated college and law school with a pretty hefty amount of debt. I want to be able to help them...but if they think we are going to pay for them to party in college while they attend 6 or 7 years of undergraduate schooling, they've got another thing coming. Helping is one thing....but they're going to have to learn that they are also going to be responsible.

My parenting woes have only just begun...but I wouldn't change it for anything when those three little angels look me in the eye.

[homedawg]

Children are priceless, but raising them is probably the most expensive thing you'll ever do.

Every newborn child is a bundle of joy. But you better have a bundle of cash on hand if you want to raise one.

For 2004, the newest data available, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that families making $70,200 a year or more will spend a whopping $269,520 to raise a child from birth through age 17. Higher-income families in urban areas in the West spend the most, $284,460.

Though not as steep, the figures for lower-income families are just as unsettling: $184,320 for families earning $41,700 to $70,200 and $134,370 for families making less than that. That breaks down to nearly $15,000 a year from birth to age 2 for families in the $65,800 -plus income bracket. As your child ages, he or she gets even more expensive, topping out at $15,810 from ages 15 to 17. This is no back-of-the-envelope guesstimate. The survey involves visits to, and interviews with, about 5,000 households, four times a year.

Nor is there much in the way of cost-effectiveness for larger families. With an older child of 16, the USDA study says, a family with a second child under 2 lays out $20,740 for the both of them each year, with the numbers growing progressively as the children get older. With three children -- the two older ones being 16 and 13 -- a third child aged 2 years or less rings up an annual bill of $24,160.

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The figures are LOW! :thumbs:

[homedawg]

had a baby born October of 2007.

Congrats! :beerbang:

I now know where 1 baby came from! There's still another 4,314,999.

[Nigel Tufnel]

I guess I'm guilty as charged....had a baby born October of 2007. But, hey, my wife and I are both gainfully employed, and at least we aren't as bad as this guy....



Man Reportedly Fathers 6 Children With 6 Different Women
Monday, March 12, 2007

A Cincinnati man is expecting six children with six different women, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.

During court proceedings charging Rickey Lackey with attempted theft, Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Melba Marsh asked Lackey how many children he had.

Lackey's response: “None, but I have six on the way."

That prompted Marsh to ask Lackey, 25, if he was marrying a woman with six kids.

“No, I be concubining," Lackey responded, meaning he lives with women he is not married to.

Lackey's lawyer stopped the line of questioning and the judge dropped it after deciding it was not relevant to the case.

Lackey was later convicted for attempted theft.

The women are all expecting between August and October.



This was the punchline of a lot of jokes in the Cincy area...it takes some balls to tell a judge to keep you out of jail because you have six kids on the way....only to inform her that you aren't marrying a woman who is pregnant with sextuplets or marrying a woman with six children, but rather...."U be concubining." While the quote to the judge is funny, its a perfect example of the problem...now six different women are going to have children with a father that will likely be incarcerated and unable to provide support.

[redhog55]

What the hell is "snow"? Anyway, you're too damn young to run for president!!!!

[dananderson32]

Can't agree with you more Homedog!! We have no morals in this country any more and when you state your opinion to topics such as this one, you are referred to as a right wing dinosaur.

Unless the welfare program has changed, the more kids that you produce, the larger the benefits each month.

It could be worse though. We could adapt the Chinese policy and just allow women to have 1 child. How many of us wouldn't be around if that was the case?

Anyway, I guess I'll just keep paying my taxes and watching the government piss it away. Maybe someday they will change, but not in my lifetime.

what if i ran for president with my platform promising all driveways to be shoveled year round and for those people who don't get any snow **** em

[redhog55]

Can't agree with you more Homedog!! We have no morals in this country any more and when you state your opinion to topics such as this one, you are referred to as a right wing dinosaur.

Unless the welfare program has changed, the more kids that you produce, the larger the benefits each month.

It could be worse though. We could adapt the Chinese policy and just allow women to have 1 child. How many of us wouldn't be around if that was the case?

Anyway, I guess I'll just keep paying my taxes and watching the government piss it away. Maybe someday they will change, but not in my lifetime.

[homedawg]

It's an epidemic, guys are knocking up multiple women, and women are getting knocked up, to lock a man in, or for the extra funding from the government.

I am sick and tired of hearing about a guy, who has multiple children with multiple women, that end up being a deadbeat dad, and the women that allow it to happen!

We shouldn't be so concerned with our pets, get yourself spayed or neutered!

[redhog55]

None were mine-------that I know of :laughing:

[CuseFan10]

Don't let Flyers see this..............